Interesting prompt in my view. I was reading Stephen Arnold’s post “Open Source Dust Up“. Some interesting facts, thoughts and questions behind success of open source companies. This is about money, not technology. Big surprise… So, my question today is simple. Is there “silver bullet” for PLM Open Source? Is…
I’m very happy to share article by Kenneth Wong in DE Online. One Small Step for Office, One Giant Leap for Online Collaboration. In my view, online collaboration will receive huge boost as soon as Office 2010 will be available and will be very beneficial for CAD/PDM/PLM industry. You can…
Very Loud Prompt- Google building 3D hardware boost into Chrome. Brad Chen, engineering manager of the Google Native Client said in his presentation – “With O3D, we think we’ll be able to enable high-quality games, the kind you’re accustomed to seeing on consoles, as well as CAD (computer-aided design) applications” ….
I’m looking on SolidJott plug-in for SolidWorks. My opinion, that social tools need to be integrated into CAD environment. The main question, I’m asking -what is practical way to do so? I’ve been looking on few examples of social tools integration into CAD and design environment. Starting from joke-like-twitting-SpaceClaim and…
Loud prompt – Microsoft is releasing Office 2010 version, which will include free Office 2010 browser version. Take a look also on some analysis on eWeek article. This is something that potentially can be very disruptive for PLM portion of collaboration, which relies on sharing and non-3D and unstructured information….
Very impressive capabilities of Google Docs including Auto-playfeatures. I think presentation becomes very mature.Two questions incontext of this information I had in my mind: Google Docs: You want tables! 1. Is it matured enough to replace multiple Excels we are using today? 2. What do you think about embedding of…
Short prompt – I’m looking on definition of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Information Management (PIM). Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. [1] PLM integrates people, data, processes and…
I think we are moving fast toward combination of virtual and physical worlds. How we can get closer and combine our experience in these two words? In one of my previous prompts “Combine virtual and physical map overlay with G1″, I discussed how possible to merge physical and virtual maps. Today…
Note toward future. After long Microsoft related discussion about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, final, and more future oriented, prompt about coming Microsoft Azure platform. Microsoft will not be first in this cloud-services game. Nevertheless, may be some of PLM providers will find benefits to run on top of all…
I’m thinking, how PLM can become leaner and efficient. In today’s economical situation and even in general, to make PLM leaner will be good step. So, where is the problem? I see 3 fundamental factors that prevent PLM from do so: PLM creates to many high-level expectations. PLM is trying to change…
